Last week a new French effort to shake up the cell phone industry began when Free.fr launched an all-but-free, unlimited cell phone service. It was expected to wake up the bigger industry players--and now we know it has.READ»
Today GetGlue reveals a new $12 million funding round. Much more potent, however, is news that its check-in rate is up 1,000%, and that 75 TV networks are using GetGlue's social tech to appeal to fans. READ»
Whether it's building cities, railroads, or even power lines, our interconnected world has a heavy footprint on the rest of the environment. These mind-blowing renderings by the cartographers at Globaia show the awe-inspiring power of ...READ»
There's been a lot of fuss about Apple's plans for a next-gen integrated SIM card in iPhones, and new reports even suggest Apple's abandoned the plan. But does the fuss even make sense?READ»
Google's TV project hit the headlines with a splash with big-name launch partners like Sony and Intel. But is the effort to populate the thing with content stuttering?READ»
Apple's new iPhone is due to burst upon an unsuspecting world in barely two weeks, with a staged, international roll-out. But Apple is seriously banking on this thing selling like hotcakes. And by hotcakes, we mean millions a ...READ»
To address the concerns of the German public and data protection authorities, Google's just explained in detail what data its Street View fleet gathers as it transits the highways of the World. It's a lot, and more personal than you ...READ»
Cisco has just signed up to what sounds like a bizarre and confusing thing: It'll be a partner in developing a whole "smart city" in Korea. Weird. But if you think about it, with networks connecting up everything, it may be a model ...READ»
The iTunes pricing debate is be getting hotter, as the iPad's launch date approaches, with news that networks are wary of Apple's lower price plans. The TV industry's following the music and publishing biz here...will things be ...READ»
The new Green Touch Consortium, spearheaded by Alcatel-Lucent, is an example of teamwork at its finest. Launched this week, the consortium of chip makers, telecom operators and universities (AT&T, CEA-LETI, China Mobile, ...READ»
TV is changing. We're still finishing the transition to slim HDTV sets, and now the way entertainment is being delivered to us is transforming. Cable TV may change swiftly, and even the venerable BBC has got the Internet TV ...READ»
Oh Facebook, when are you going to learn? When you've got over a third of a billion people using your site to basically fritter the day away, any tweaks are going to stir up your population. What are Facebookers saying about these new ...READ»
Though Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes has his own agenda to push regarding the future of TV, speaking to the Daily Beast recently he mentioned the future of free-to-air TV. He thinks it hasn't got one, and he may have a point.
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Apple rumors swirl practically every week, but there's rarely one that's as potentially game-changing as this one: According to insiders, the company's aiming to cut out the cable TV middle man, and serve up network TV to as many as ...READ»
Spend-happy Cisco systems has opened up its purse yet again, and shelled out some $2.9 billion for a company you've probably never heard of: Starent. What will interest you is that this should improve future smartphone ...READ»
Only yesterday the FCC's chairman spoke up about net neutrality rules, and already the big U.S. 3G broadband providers are beginning to shake their rattles, cry out loud and demand that people listen: Net neutrality is bad, they ...READ»
AT&T, your friendly ISP and cellphone provider, just became an online TV-Show and Movie network with the introduction of a new Web site. But it's not in competition against Hulu--thanks to an agreement with Hulu.READ»
When I joked everything would soon be wired to a social network the other day I didn't realize how close I was to the mark. Because social net giant Facebook is angling to become the vehicle that lets everything on your smartphone get ...READ»
Computer security is a famously murky world that tends to generate alarmist headlines--like the ones about Apple's vulnerabilities from last week. Defcon 2009 has just finished, and lived up to this reputation in many, surprising, ...READ»
